Posted on 09/04/2016 6:46:51 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
A skyrocketing number of students are seeking crisis counseling at Eastern Carolina University, prompting the school to make sure it educates pupils not just on academics but also on how to cope with life's challenges.
ECU reported a 16 percent increase in student counseling appointments in the past two years. Those involving a crisis were up 52 percent, according to a July report that shocked officials on the Greenville, North Carolina, campus.
"It wasn't just the numbers, it was the intensity and severity," said ECU Director of Counseling Valerie Kisler-van Reede. "It felt like something very different was going on — a lack of resiliency and the ability to cope."
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Colleges making up for parenting failures
Being around these students must be like being around the mentally unstable. You never know what will set them off so you are in a state of perpetual alertness. Never able to relax and enjoy things, just basically worrying nonstop over saying something that will trigger an emotional reaction.
This is what happens when people grow up depending on themselves rather than on God. The ungodly who have taken over government education have not done this country any favors. The youth suicide rate is increasing and the middle aged are dying in such numbers from drug abuse that this scourge is finally gaining attention.
Exactly - "adulting" classes are needed for snowflakes who's feminist mothers snarled and shrieked and mocked and backstabbed and finally divorced their fathers out of the family.
Welcome to Snowflake U. Rah. Rah. Rah. OOOOOoooooo, gotta go to my safe space...
Ping!
Thinking along the lines of the spoiled baby-adult who’s smother-mother made sure he always got a participation trophy, never learned how to lose, face failure or take a personal stake in anything. A loser who’s mother never let him take responsibility for his mistakes, was never held accountable for anything, was always told he was special and entitled to everything he ever got.
Now, he experiences life as an adult; and has absolutely no clue, nor a single coping tool in dealing with the stresses of adult life. He believes “feeling” is the same as “thinking”; because he has never learned to think before. Mommy did his homework, and let him take credit for the work.
He has no clue as to what honor, hard work, integrity nor responsibility even mean. And this kind of loser is all too common; and becoming the standard.
I remember reading somewhere that the average college student of the 2010s is about as disturbed as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s.
Normal home economics (consumer education, parenting, cooking, etc.) classes could help with this sort of thing. Normal as in not a heavy emphasis in sex ed. The classes are usually the first to go in a school budget crunch.
“I remember reading somewhere that the average college student of the 2010s is about as disturbed as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s.”
I’d testify to that!
Advancement Via Individual Determination aka The Little Engine That Could.
This is also known as AVID - to help students develop the skills they need to be successful in college.
I thought all the years in school prior were to do so. You know. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, History, Shop class.
Now they have Common Core where 2 + 2 does not equal 4 anymore, dropped history or just saying the USA is bad and there are no shop classes. http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/high-school-notes/2015/02/09/3-answers-for-high-school-parents-about-avid-classes
When something becomes an acronym then you know it is useless.
Company HR person: I see here on your resume that you have a degree in Advancement Via Individual Determination
Just what skill is that? Isn’t that suppose to be high school?
You misspelled resume.......
A new principal at Robbinsdale Middle School
http://post.mnsun.com/2014/07/18/a-new-principal-at-robbinsdale-middle-school/
He said he was interested in the job because of the school’s diverse student population and its “best practice” programs, which include International Baccalaureate and Advancement Via Individual Determination.
This is a great example of a social justice warrior literally melting down and acting like a Hitler brown shirt..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeNJFz-WCZs
And when they get jobs they will expect their employers to continue the role of parent with more outlays of cash to provide counseling(coddling) for the rest of their lives.
Special snowflakes
Students had anxiety and stuff when I was in college in the 80s, too. They just didn’t involve the authorities unless there was a medical emergency. Not many 18-year-olds are ready to live on their own, far from family support. It takes time to learn to manage your own life.
Unlike universities, the military has an investment in making sure recruits do well and learn to be competent adults.
Obama’s military?
Time to reinstitute the draft, mandatory participation, academic exemptions only for the very best and brightest. Military service might make men and women out of these poor children.
Otherwise my generation better discover a way to live for another hundred years, because our kids are mostly not ready or able to take over when we’re gone.
Shop class? I never had shop class and did just fine in college.
Working a job withdraw offer on one at this point in time.
Not playing Mommy for a loser.
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